From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 7/7/2025 6:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 09:29:25 -0700, Mike Easter wrote:   
   >   
   >> Chris Elvidge wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Which bit of "if you're not happy with the way person X does it, you're   
   >>> quite welcome to do it yourself" do you not understand?   
   >>>   
   >> I always say, 'Nobody wants to compile.'   
   >   
   > Those coming from a Windows background are understandably a little scared   
   > of the process, considering the myriad of things that can go wrong in that   
   > environment.   
   >   
      
   We are weary of the process, but not scared of it.   
      
   In the dawn of time, people prepared FOSS works, that compiled   
   on fifteen platforms. The packages were carefully curated. They   
   had excellent instructions.   
      
   Todays dev, is a careless son of a bitch.   
      
   "Oh, heh heh, yes, I must have had Boost installed on my   
   machine when I built that." Or "Don't you have the same utterly   
   weird collection of bits and bobs on your computer as I do ???"   
      
   That's what building from source consists of in the year 2025.   
   It's all a big joke.   
      
   Here, I've just written a Python program in Python 0.7 . Enjoy!!!   
      
   And so on.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)